On 2 March 2009, the Human Rights Law Resource Centre hosted a seminar with Carroll Bogert, Associate Director, Human Rights Watch, at Blake Dawson.
About Carroll Bogert
Carroll Bogert is Associate Director of Human Rights Watch, one of the world’s leading human rights organisations. She oversees the organisation’s external relations and works on strategic advocacy, communications and fundraising.
Human Rights Watch has recently released its World Report 2009, an annual review and summary of human rights issues around the globe. The Report calls on states like Australia and the USA to put human rights at the heart of foreign, domestic, and security policy.
Ms Bogert previously worked as a journalist, including as a foreign correspondent and subsequently an Editor of Newsweek, and as a correspondent and bureau chief in Moscow and South East Asia. She covered the Tiananmen Square protests in China in 1989.
Ms Bogert frequently publishes human rights op-ed pieces in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Financial Times and USA Today.
